Likud MK wants to drop Arabic as official language, further Jewish settlement within Israel’s jurisdiction.

The chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday renewed his proposal for a Basic Law that would define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, drop Arabic as one of the country’s official languages, and allocate resources to “ingather the exiles of Israel and [further] Jewish settlement within it.”

Jabotinsky wanted Arabic and Hebrew to be given the same status, and he
wanted the seat of deputy prime minister to be offered to an Arab
everytime the prime minister would be Jewish and vice versa. Herzl
wanted bigots like himself to leave the Jewish state. He should join
Putin's government instead. I'm sure he would feel very comfortable with
his policies!

use history when it suits them and simply ignore it when it doesn't.
Israel is only able to exist because it was carved out of Palestinian
lands. For this, it should acknowledge the debt it owes to the
displaced people and those who became subjects of a Jewish majority
state by doing everything to make them feel part of the country.
Instead the extremists wish to achieve the very opposite. Arrogance and
inhumanity are fitting descriptions of contemporary Israel. It should
never have come to this.

says the country will be developed for ALL OF ITS INHABITANTS. Didn't
say only Jewish inhabitants. The discriminatory and anti=democratic
actions of this government are contributing to Israel's dwindling
support.

The Torah does not mention "Jews" even once. Only in the
TaNaKh are "Jews" (Judahites, from the tribe of Judah)
mentioned independently. But the promise of Eretz Israel was made not to
Jews only, but to Am Israel. The Jewish idea that Am Israel refers to
Israelites of Jewish religion only is flawed. The Torah itself speaks of
Hebrews/Israelites, and the promise of the Land of Israel is made to the
Children of Israel, which in the Torah is defined independently of
religion. A Child of Israel remains one no matter if he has converted
away, as happened to Palestinian Christians and Palestinian Muslims. The
inheritance still applies to them too. Jews interpret "Bnai
Israel" and "Am Israel" to mean Jews only, but it
doesn't. It includes the Samaritans, Palestinian Christians, Palestinian
Muslims, and the world's Jews. All four of these are Israelites by
blood, and the inheritance of the Land of Israel belongs to them all, as
is promised. Stop fighting over the land, and share it among the four,
because together we are Israel. Yugoslavia descended into chaos because
one ethniciry wrongly believed they were three different peoples: Serbs,
Croats, and Bosniaks, they are all the one genetic population, living in
the same land, and with the same heritage, it's been proven by DNA and
history, but as a matter of human history, now one is catholic, the
other orthodox, and the other muslim. The same thing happened to the
Israelites. One is jewish, one is Samaritan, one is Christian
Palestinian, one is Muslim Palestinian, but we are all Hebrews, and
together we are Am Israel. So let me say, Am Israel Chai, Kol Am Israel
Chai, Lo Rak HaYehudim.

Israeli Arabs need to feel they belong to Israel and therefore Arabic
must have an official status. It is also a minority right! --- What is
Israel? Another Ukraine, where Russian language has no official status?
This is going backwards, not onwards in progress, HELLO Israel!

wîll - with sadness - withdraw their support if the state of
Israel should adopt such laws. It would be a travesty of the
potentiality of Israel as an exemplary secular member of the countries
of the Middle East.

the international community readily acknowledge that Israel is the
homeland for Jews. On that we agree. Where we disagree, I presume, is
what principles we want our homeland to rest on. For many of us it
needs to be a proper democracy as well as being our homeland. For you,
it seems to be acceptable for it to treat non-Jews as inferior or
second-class citizens.

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